Cubone
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Names
- English: Cubone
- Japanese: カラカラ (Karakara)
- German: Tragosso
- French: Osselait
Number(s)
- National: 104
- Hoenn: 272
- Johto: 203
Gender
♂ 50% - ♀ 50%
Egg Group(s)
Monster
Evolution
| Basic | Stage One |
|---|---|
Size
- Height: 0.4 m / 1’04”
- Weight: 6.5 kg / 14.3 lbs.
Damage Taken
- Immune: Electric
- ×½: Poison, Rock
- ×2: Water, Grass, Ice
Ability effects are not included.
Base Stats
| Stat | Rank | E.P. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sum | 320 | ||
| HP | 58 | 0 | |
| Attack | 59 | 0 | |
| Defense | 23 | 1 | |
| Sp.Atk | 62 | 0 | |
| Sp.Def | 55 | 0 | |
| Speed | 58 | 0 | |
Ability
- Rock Head
- Game's description
- Protects the Pokémon from recoil damage.
- Battle effect
- Does not receive recoil damage from recoil-causing damages.
- Lightningrod
- Game's description
- The Pokémon draws in all Electric-type moves.
- Battle effect
- Electric-type moves are drawn to this Pokémon.
Wild Item
- Diamond/Pearl
- Thick Club (5%)
Pal Park
- Area: Mountain
- Points: 50
- Encounter rate: 30
Miscellaneous
- Species: Lonely Pokémon
- Steps to hatch: 5,120
- Color: Brown
- Catch Rate: 190
- Base Tameness: 70
- Growth Group: Medium Fast
1,000,000 exp. points to Lv100
Location
- Diamond
- Swarm in Route 203 [Swarm]
- Pearl
- Swarm in Route 203 [Swarm]
Pokédex Flavour (description)
- Red/Blue
- Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this POKéMON's real face.
- Yellow
- Wears the skull of its deceased mother. Its cries echo inside the skull and come out as a sad melody.
- Gold
- If it is sad or lonely, the skull it wears shakes, and emits a plaintive and mournful sound.
- Silver
- It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like.
- Crystal
- It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother's skull, never revealing its true face.
- Ruby
- CUBONE pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the POKéMON wears are made by the tears it sheds.
- Sapphire
- CUBONE pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the POKéMON wears are made by the tears it sheds.
- Emerald
- It pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull it wears are from its tears.
- Fire Red
- It wears the skull of its dead mother on its head. When it becomes lonesome, it is said to cry loudly.
- Leaf Green
- Because it never removes its skull helmet, no one has ever seen this POKéMON's real face.
- Diamond
- When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
- Pearl
- When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries. Its crying makes the skull it wears rattle hollowly.
